Quotes from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

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Zero Mostel
Philia: That's the brute who raped my country, Thrace!
Pseudolus: He raped Thrace?
Philia: And then he came and did it again! And then again!
Pseudolus: He raped Thrace thrice?

Buster Keaton
Erronius: My daughter, a eunuch?

Michael Hordern
Senex: A word of advice: never fall in love during a total eclipse.

Michael Hordern
Senex: Son, if you're only as happy as your mother and I have been... my heart bleeds for you.

Michael Hordern
Domina: A common flesh-peddler in the house next to ours, disgusting!
Senex: Disgraceful, all that revolting flesh. Just next door...

Michael Hordern
Domina: That breeder woman, has she been thrown a mate yet?
Hysterium: Alas, she refuses just any slave. She demands to choose.
Senex: Choose? She'll breed and like it, like everyone. Well, almost everyone.

Zero Mostel
Hysterium: How dare you call me a eunuch?
Pseudolus: You know it isn't true and I know it isn't true. So what do we care what they think?

Jack Gilford
Hysterium: I live to grovel.

Jack Gilford
Hysterium: My father is rolling over in his grave.
Pseudolus: Your father is alive.
Hysterium: This will kill him.

Jack Gilford
Hysterium: Pseudolus...
Pseudolus: I'm Lycus!
Hysterium: But, Pseudolus...
Pseudolus: I'm Lycus!
Hysterium: But, Pseudolus - !
Pseudolus: I'm Lycus, and I still know where you keep that erotic pottery!
Hysterium: Well, Lycus - all right, Lycus! He's Lycus!

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